Elvis Costello Fan Forum

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/10/DDQQT9IQT.DTL&hw=costello&sn=001&sc=1000 ***************************************** Costello's aim - at 1977 - is still true Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Critic Saturday, November 10, 2007 Every so often, once every 1...

OK -- I'm pretty sure that this is real close. No official video being shot, by the way... **************************************** (Don't recall the exact order of things.) Both shows: MAIT (Played in UK LP order) Detectives 1st show: Solo - Acoustic Cheap Reward (some tremedous song that I have N...

ramalama wrote:For a night, we were the luckiest people in the world.

Surreal, wasn't it?
Just incredible.

I find the complaints about the sound quality completely mystifying because the main album has not been remastered for the new release. It should sound exactly the same as the Rhino CD — and my copy, at least, does sound exactly the same. They also look the same when I compare the files with a wa...

I'd be pretty surprised if it's not documented on video...

bronxapostle wrote:disconcertment is being 3000 miles away!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah.
It's gotta be tempting.
Sorry -- wasn't meaning to rub it in.

It became obvious at 9:58 that the GAMH ticket site was taking a long time to refresh, so tickets.com and its assorted fees became the more viable option. I got through to the website and on the phone at the same time, so got my tickets by phone. I took the opposite approach. I figured that the GAM...

Costello was screwing around to use part of the backing track for aforementioned Mina song as a loop (sample). I suspect that he found that the only way to have the beat flow properly included that "errant" syllable from the vocal. It seems to be pure Costello luck -- cuz it sure is cool s...

How would Elvis have physically done this though? If it were a record or a CD surely it would be sealed so how would he insert it? He wouldn't have been able to open these up and put the CDRs in them. Nor would he have gone into the store and placed his own copy into the racks. Any ideas? :? I'd im...

He says record in that quote.

Was there a vinyl release of the "Best of"?

Thank you, John.
Your closing comment makes sense.

(Hope that there is no rift...)

My apologies if I overlooked an explanation of this previously, but:

Does anyone know why Pete Thomas was not involved in the shows this summer in Europe with Costello/Toussaint?

(I'm assuming prior commitments...)

Did this happen?

Had this on tape for years.
I'd love to see it resurrected in good fidelity...

They've got his bones
And everything he owns
I've got his name...

Still gets to me -- 16 years later.

Does anybody know if any of the outtakes on disc one are with Clover or are they merely more solo demos (yawn)? I'd bet that they're all solo. I doubt that any demos were done with Clover. (They just went in and bashed the studio cuts out...) I must say -- I'm delighted with this release. Having sa...

I just listened to night #1.

The end of Jack of All Parades has a snippet of Big Nothing.
I don't know that I've ever heard reference to this being played (other than the taped lead-in music @ shows...)

It sure sounds like an original to me. It was premiered last October when Elvis made a surprise appearance at a T Bone Burnett concert. It was also played Wednesday, the opening night of the current tour. Yeah -- you may be right. Upon hearing it again, it just struck me as a cover. Probably wrong...

ramalama wrote:Dr. Luther's right about the first set. That's what happens when you're scribbling on a bar napkin. I wasn't familiar with the song that might be titled American Gangster Time. Anyone heard of it before?

I'm thinking now that it's most probably a cover.
Anybody?

1st set actually went through Riot Act.

(GREAT show, by the way...)

johnfoyle wrote:Anyone going to this ?

I am...

Boy With A Problem wrote:

bronxapostle wrote: and THE METS WINNING THE WORLD SERIES DRIVING HOME...WHAT A NIGHT!

I don't think I like you.

Well, that's not nice.
I should know -- as I'm not quite sure that I like him either.
(I bet he's Gary Carter...)

I really like it. But I have an emotional attachment to it -- because it was used as lead-in music for the "Costello Sings Again" shows in 1986. As a result, I heard it 8 times in (I guess) 9 days (LA & SF). And, as it was (at that time) unreleased, it was quite the treat. I'll always ...

Yeah -- I'd go with just one of the limbs...